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[House  of  Representatives,  No.      .] 
C .  S  1 ,  C*v- 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  September  2,  1862.  Read 
first  and  'second  times  and  referred  to  Committee  of  Ways  and  Means. 
Sept.  10,  1862.  Reported  back,  passage  recommended,  placed  on 
Calendar,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 


A.  BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act   for  the  relief  of  disbursing  officers 
and  other  agents  of  the  Government  in  certain  cases. 

1  Section  1.    The  Congress  of  the  Con  federate  Stales  of 

2  America  do  enact,    That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 

3  be,  and   he    is   hereby,  authorized    and    directed, ,  upon 

4  satisfactory  proof  being  adduced  to  him,  that  any  money, 

5  bonds,  Treasury  notes,  or  other  funds,  have  been  de- 

6  stroyecl  by  any  disbursing  officer  or  other  agent  of  the 

7  Government,  and  that  such  destruction  was  necessary  to 

8  prevent  such  money  or  funds  from  falling  into  the  hands 
0  of  the  enemy,  to  credit  such  disbursing  officer  or  agent 

10  with  the  amount  thereof  in  the  settlement  of  his  accounts 

11  with  the  Government. 


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